| Description |
xii, 284 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Fulbright papers ; v. 15 |
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Fulbright papers ; v. 15.
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| Note |
"Proceedings of the Fulbright Colloquium on Life and Death under High Technology Medicine ... held at Brunel, the University of West London"--Foreword. |
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Colloquium sponsored by the U.S.-U.K. Educational Commission. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Understanding life in the context of high technology medicine. The social consequences of advances in the clinical applications of genetics / Martin Bobrow, Elizabeth Manners -- Screening for foetal and genetic disease: some social and psychological consequences / Martin Richards, Jo Green -- The Human Genome Project: creator of the potentially sick, potentially vulnerable and potentially stigmatized? / Regina Kenen -- Displacing knowledge: technology and its consequences for kinship / Marilyn Strathern. 2. Social and ethical issues in managing the use of high technology medicine. Ethical and economic aspects of life-saving and life-sustaining technologies / Bryan Jennett -- The social consequences of the development of the artificial heart / Thomas Preston -- Biotechnology, patients and profits: how is the law to respond? / Michael Freeman |
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A monopsonistic market: or how to buy and sell human organs, tissues and cells ethically / Charles A. Erin, John Harris. 3. The cultural context of choice in relation to high technology medicine. How can good choices be made about dying? / Roger Higgs -- Contests with death: ideologies of nationalism and internationalism in Japan / Margaret Lock -- What is power? How is decision? The heart has its reasons / Ronald Frankenberg. 4. Understanding the social role and development of high technology medicine. Lay perceptions of modern medicine and medical practice / Michael Calnan, Simon Williams -- A social role for technology: making the body legible / David Armstrong -- Rehabilitating sick people: high technology and the reconstruction of normal possibilities / Ian Robinson -- Technology, medicine and the psychosocial context: the case of psychoneuroimmunology / Margot Lyon. |
| Subject |
Medical technology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.
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Medical innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.
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Human Genome Project.
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Ethics, Medical. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004992
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Technology, High-Cost. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013675
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Medical innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01014190
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Medical technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01014760
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| Indexed Term |
Ethics, Medical congresses |
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Medical ethics congresses |
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Medical innovations Moral and ethical aspects Congresses |
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Medical technology Moral and ethical aspects Congresses |
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Medicine Ethics |
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Technology, High-Cost congresses |
| Genre/Form |
Congress. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016423
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Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
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| Added Author |
Robinson, Ian, 1943-
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United States-United Kingdom Educational Commission.
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Fulbright Colloquium on Life and Death under High Technology Medicine (Brunel University)
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| ISBN |
0719035902 (hardback) |
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9780719035906 (hardback) |
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